The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1887-02-02
INTERSTATE COMMERCE.
Text of the Bill as It Finally
Passed Both Houses OF
Congress.
The bill passed by Congress regulating
infarsfafe commerce is as follows:

interstate commerce is as follows:
An act 20 regulate commerce: BE IL enacted
by the Senate and House OF Representatives of
the United States of America in Congress rs.
sembled. That the provisions OF this act shall
apply To any common carrier or carriers en-
gagged in the transportation of passengers or
property wholly by railroad or partly by rail-
road and partly by water when both are used
under common control, management or ar
rangement for n continuous carriage or ship
nlent from one State or Territory of the United
States or the District OF Columbia 20 any other
State or Territory of the United States or the
District Of Columbia, or from any place in the
United states 90 an adjacent foreign country, or
from any place in the United States through
a foreign country to any other place IN the
United States, ana also to the transportation in
like manner of property shipped from any place
I'm tho United tates to "A foreign country and
carried from such place To a port OF transship-
ment shipped from foreign country
20 any place in the United States and
carried TO such place from a port of en-
try either in tie United States or an
adjacent foreign country Provided, however
That the provisions of this act shall not apply
20 the transportation of passengers or prop 3rty,
or 20 the receiving, delivering, storage. or
handling of property, wholly within one State,
and not shipped TO or from "A foreign country
from or TO any State or Territory as aforesaid.
The term railroad" used in this act shall
include all bridges and ferries used or operated
in connection with any railroad, and also all
the road in use by any corporation operating
railroad, whether owned or operated under
contract agreement or lease; and the term
Transportation" shall include all instrument
talities of shipment or carriage. All charges
made for any service rendered or To be rem
dercd in the transportation OF passengers or
property as aforesaid, or in connection there
with. for the receiving, delivering, storage
or handling OF such property, shall be reason
able and Just and every unjust and unreason-
able charge for such service is prohibited and
declared TO be unlawful
Sec. 9. That if any common carrier subject
to the provisions of this act shall directly or in
directly by any special rate. rebate, drawback,
or other device, charge, demand, collect, or re-
ceive from any person or persons greater or
less compensation for any service rendered, or
TO be rendered, in the Transportation Of passen-
gers property subject to the provisions of this
act, Than il charges, demands, collects, or re-
ceivos from any other person or persons for
doing for him or them like and contemporaries
service in the transportation OF like kind
of traffic under substantially similar circum-
stances anu conditions, such common carrier
shall be deemed guilty of unjust discrimina-
ton, which is hereby prohibited and declared to
be unlawful.
Sec 3. That it shall be unlawful for any COM
mon carrier subject to the provisions OF this act
to make or give any undue or unreasonable
preference or advantage TO any particular per-
son, company, firm corporation, or locality, or
any particular description of traffic, in any
spect whatsoever or TO subject any particular
person, company, firm corporation, or locality,
or any particular description of traffic, TO any
undue or unreasonable prejudice or disadvan-
tage in any respect whatsoever. Every common
carrier subject to the provisions Of this act shall,
according to their respective powers, afford all
reasonable, proper and equal facilities for the
interchange of traffic between their respective
lines, and for the receiving, forwarding and de-
livering OF passengers and property to and from
their several lines and those connecting there
with, and shall not discriminate in their rates
and charges between such connecting lines but
this shall not DO construed as requiring any such
common carrier TO give the use of its tracks or
terminal facilities to another carrier engaged in
like business.
Sec T. That il shall be unlawful for any COM
mon carrier subject to the provisions of this act
TO charge or receive any greater compensation
in the aggregate for the transportation of pas
sengers or of like kind of property, under sub
Stnntaly similar circumstances and condi-
tions, for a shorter than for longer distance
over the same line in the same direction the
shorter being included within the longer dis
lance; but this shall not be construed as au-
thoriZing any common carrier within the terms
OF this act TO charge and receive as great COM
pensation for n shorter for longer distance:
Provided, however, that upon application TO the
Commission appointed under the provisions of
this act such common carrier may, in special
cases, after investigation by the Commission,
be authorized TO charge less for longer than for
short distances for the transportation of pas
sengers or property; and the Commission may
from time TO time prescribe the extent TO which
such designated common carrier may be re-
2ieyed from the operation of this section Of the
act.
Sec. 3. That it shall be unlawful for any COM
mon carrier subject to the provisions of this act
To enter into any contract, agreement or combi-
nation with any other common irrier or carriers
for the pooling of freights of different and COM
petng railroads, or to divide between them the
aggregate net proceeds of the earnings OF
such railroads, or any portion thereof and in
any case of an agreement for the pooling Of
freights as aforesaid, each day of its continu-
ance shall be deemed n separate offense.
Sec. q. That every common carrier subject TO
the provisions OF this act shall print and keep
for public inspection schedules showing the
rates and fares and charges for the transporta-
ton of passengers and property which any such
common carrier has established and which are
in force at the time upon its railroad as defined
by the first section of this act. The schedules
printed ms aforesaid by any such common car
rier shall plainly state the places upon its rail
road between which property and passengers
will be carried, and shall contain the classihca-
ton Of freight in force upon such railroad, and
shall also state separately the terminal charges
and any rules or regulations which in any wise
change, affect or determine any part of the az
gregate of such aforesaid rates and fares and
charges. Such schedules shall be plainly
printed in large type of ut least the size of
binary plea and copies for the use of the public
shall be kept in every depot or station upon any
such railroad liz such places and in such form
that they can be conveniently inspected. Any
common carrier subject to the provisions of this
act receiving freight in the United States TO be
carried through foreign country TO any place
i'm the United States shall also in like manner
print and keep for public inspection at every
depot where such freight is received for ship
ment, schedules showing the through rates es-
tablished and charged by such common carrier
to all points in the United States be.
yond the foreign country to which il
accepts freight for shipment; and any
freight shipped from the United states
InfOuBn q foreign country 1ntO Jne united
States, the through rate on which shall not have
been made public as required by this act, shall,
before it is admitted into the United States
from said foreign country, be subject TO GUS
toms duties, as if said freight of for
eign production; and any law in conflict with
this section is hereby repealed. No advance
shall be made in the rates, fares, and charges
which have been established and published
aforesaid by any common carrier, in compli-
sance with the requirements of this section,
cept after ten,days public notice. which shall
plainly state the changes proposed TO be made
in the schedule then in force, and the time
when the increased rates, fares, or charges will
go into effect and the proposed changes shall
be shown by printing new schedules, or shall
be plainly indicated upon the schedules in force
at the time and kept for public inspection Re
auctions in such public rates, fares, or changes
may be made without previous public
notice; but whenever any such reduction is
made notice of the same shall Immediately be
publicly posted, and the changes made shall
immediately be made public by printing new
schedules or shall Immediately be plainly in
Dictated upon the schedules at the time in force
and kept for public inspection. And when any
such common carrier shall have established
and published its rates. fares, and charges, in
compliance with the provisions of this section,
it shall be unlawful for such common carrier to
charge, demand, collect, or receive from any
person or persons n greater or less cOmpensa-
ton for the transportation OF passengers or
Froperty, for any services in connection
ftherewith than Is specified in such published
schedule of rates, fares, and charges may at
the time be I'm force Every common carrier